As newly released diary entries have thrust Dr. Anthony Fauci back into the spotlight, Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed&#8217;s own pandemic-era podcast offers a glimpse into just how closely he aligned himself with the former White House adviser.  
El-Sayed had hosted a podcast sporadically since 2019, but just seven days into the COVID-19 pandemic, he ramped up production to two episodes a week focused on the virus and public health policy. A review of the episodes by The Daily Wire found that El-Sayed repeatedly praised Fauci, defended his handling of the pandemic, and echoed many of his positions while attacking the former NIH official&#8217;s critics.
In a 2021 <a href="https://www.crooked.com/podcast/a-second-opinion-with-dr-anthony-fauci/">interview</a> with Fauci, El-Sayed described him as the “face of infectious disease science and medicine dating back all the way to the first outbreak of HIV/AIDS in the 80s.” 
“Throughout the pandemic, his honesty, candor, and stubborn insistence on science have been a source of confidence and comfort for many of us,&#8221; El-Sayed said while introducing Fauci. &#8220;Even if it’s meant he’s become a lightning rod for trolls on the right.” 
The “trolls on the right” comment seemed to be describing Fauci critics like Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY).
On Wednesday, Paul and Fauci met again in Congress after Paul released pages from Fauci&#8217;s diary that he says contradict the former COVID adviser&#8217;s public messaging on the virus&#8217;s origins, his views of political figures including President Trump, and his preoccupation with media attention and fame. 
During the 2021 interview, El-Sayed used the podcast episode to accuse Paul of putting politics ahead of science. Fauci agreed.
“Though he should know better, Dr. Senator Paul has chosen feeding red meat to his political base over following the science that he trained on,” said El-Sayed. “We were fortunate that Dr. Anthony Fauci was there to check him every single time.&#8221;
He lamented that &#8220;the country’s top infectious disease expert has to routinely spar with another doctor in the Senate over basic science around getting vaccinated or wearing a mask in the pandemic.”
El-Sayed also argued that Paul and other vaccine skeptics had exploited what he called the evolving nature of scientific guidance.
“People like Rand Paul and the legions of vaccine resisters they inspire have exploited a peculiar aspect of this pandemic,” El-Sayed said. “The fact that all of us are trying to interpret changing science in real time.”
Like Fauci, El-Sayed built much of his public profile during the pandemic by presenting himself as a physician and public health expert while advocating for some of the country&#8217;s most aggressive COVID mitigation measures. In 2021, he pushed for Michigan to go back under another statewide lockdown, suggested fining businesses that attempted to open, and criticized Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis for allowing kids to return to school without mask mandates.
The pandemic also elevated El-Sayed&#8217;s national profile. In addition to his podcast, he made frequent television appearances and later became a CNN contributor.
El-Sayed, who earned a medical degree but has never completed a residency or obtained a medical license to practice medicine, is now seeking Michigan&#8217;s open U.S. Senate seat.
Fauci&#8217;s diary resurfaced this week as he appeared before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. During Wednesday&#8217;s hearing, Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination 111 times while answering questions about the diary entries and his handling of the COVID pandemic.
Former President Joe Biden issued Fauci a preemptive pardon during the final hours of his presidency.

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As Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed campaigns for the U.S. Senate, his calls during the COVID-19 pandemic for renewed lockdowns, business fines, and expanded vaccination are likely to face scrutiny. 
During his failed 2021 campaign for Michigan governor, El-Sayed said he would have ordered another statewide shutdown to slow the spread of COVID.
“There’s no question,” El-Sayed <a href="https://www.pbs.org/video/apr-23-2021-rep-david-lagrand-off-the-record-mzyrt1/">said</a> when asked whether, as governor, he would shut the state down. “If you look at where the science and where the science has been. The CDC itself has suggested that we ought to shut things down. And we know that shutdowns in the past have been successful whether it was in the Spring or the Fall. This is a responsibility.” 
El-Sayed proposed what he described as a two- to three-week &#8220;pause&#8221; and said that if businesses did not comply, they should face “a very annoying but real fine.” 
“I get that people are sick of this but it’s the right thing to do to stop the spread of this contagious variant of the virus. What is the alternative?” 
He also argued that systemic racism and poverty contributed to challenges in distributing vaccines in cities such as Detroit.
“We know the biggest challenge to delivering public health in a community like Detroit, because of systemic racism and poverty it creates, is the last mile problem,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You can offer a vaccine in places…but we all now that is not really where people actually live and we got to get them out to people’s doorstep.” 
To address vaccine hesitancy, El-Sayed proposed working with trusted community leaders, including pastors and neighborhood organizations.
&#8220;What I’d like to see, right, and this is a big lift, right, is more focus on taking on the vaccine hesitancy, whether it’s a block club captain or a local pastor and thinking about that last mile problem by putting vaccines on wheels and getting them out into people’s communities,” he said. 
During the pandemic, El-Sayed also launched a twice-weekly podcast to keep listeners informed about COVID-19 and public health policy. At the time, he described himself as “a physician and former city health commissioner,&#8221; while also serving as a CNN contributor focused on public health issues. 
El-Sayed&#8217;s current Senate platform includes support for Medicare for All, codifying abortion rights, and expanding access to so-called &#8220;gender-affirming care.&#8221; His campaign has not specified whether he supports El-Sayed did not specify if he supports &#8220;gender reassignment surgeries&#8221; for children.

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On July 29, the United States Senate held a hearing to examine testimony from Dr. Anthony Fauci. Dr. Fauci’s response? He showed up for the hearing and then declined to answer any questions about his conduct during the COVID-19 pandemic. He <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/29/politics/anthony-fauci-fifth-amendment-plea">pleaded the Fifth</a>, a choice that spoke volumes. What it didn’t do was close the books.
I tuned in for a simple reason: I wanted accountability. As a doctor, I have spent my career understanding that, along with the privilege that comes from making decisions that affect people’s lives, comes the expectation that I answer for the consequences of those decisions. Dr. Fauci hasn’t lived up to that responsibility.
I wanted him to own up to his gamesmanship on gain-of-function research. To admit that sticking to the wet market explanation for the source of the outbreak was a mistake. To acknowledge that the National Institutes of Health had funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan for years, and that it was <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/release/wenstrup-releases-alarming-new-report-on-proximal-origin-authors-nih-suppression-of-the-covid-19-lab-leak-hypothesis/">wrong</a> to dismiss the scientists who raised the possibility of a connection between that work as the source of the pandemic. The American public deserved to know whether their taxpayer dollars had supported experiments that had led to the creation of more dangerous pathogens. What we got were word games and evasion.
I wanted answers on masking. I wanted him to admit that the science on masking, especially for healthy people (let alone toddlers), always <a href="https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD006207.pub6/full">was weak</a>. Lacking any basis in science, is it any wonder that masking became a moral imperative, a litmus test that you were on the side of right, and that if you didn’t comply you should be reported to the relevant authorities.
I wanted him to take accountability for his role in the lockdowns. I wanted him to admit to the <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fauci-privately-took-credit-covid-19-lockdowns-despite-public-denial-newly-exposed-diary-entries-reveal">contacts he had with leadership at all levels</a>, from the president to mayors of major cities, conversations that drove school closures, led small businesses to shutter, and left people to die alone.
I wanted him to acknowledge that by the summer of 2020, there was <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.16.20155143v4.full.pdf">strong evidence </a>that continued school closures weren’t just unnecessary for community protection but would likely cause lasting harm to our children. To acknowledge that it was a mistake not just to refuse to listen to competing scientific voices warning about those trade-offs, but also to actively suppress that information. The operating assumption appeared to be that his was the only point of view that should matter, and that dissent would not be tolerated.
I wanted him to explain his basis for the shifting thresholds for herd immunity. At a time when Dr. Fauci and others repeated the mantra, “Follow the science,” he publicly embraced an unscientific approach to vaccination. Herd immunity is grounded in epidemiology and biology, but he admitted to changing his recommendations on how many people needed to be vaccinated for community protection in response to <a href="https://www.axios.com/2020/12/25/fauci-goalposts-herd-immunity">opinion polling</a> results. And when not enough people lined up for the jab, what was his response? That we should <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/11/health/us-coronavirus-monday">“clamp down”</a> on their right to go to school or work if they weren’t willing to get vaccinated voluntarily.
But what I wanted to hear most was an apology. An actual acknowledgment that he has made decisions that have caused lasting damage. Physicians are trained to own their mistakes in individual patient care because people’s lives depend on their trust. When they take roles in public health, that trust is even more essential.
The hearing ended without that acceptance, and the record remains incomplete. Accountability delayed is accountability denied. But make no mistake, the costs of that denial are still being borne by millions of Americans who were hurt by his decisions but didn’t have the luxury of taking the Fifth.
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Dr. Monique Yohanan, MD, MPH, is director of the Center for Better Health at Independent Women.

Fauci Pleads The Fifth Amendment In Senate Covid Hearing

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Dr. Anthony Fauci refused to turn around and face some of the people who were hurt by the draconian regulations and lockdowns he pushed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Fauci, on Capitol Hill for a Wednesday <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fauci-faces-congress-as-explosive-diaries-take-center-stage?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Daily+Wire&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=After+Fauci+Pleads+The+Fifth%2C+Rand+Paul+Makes+Contempt+Move">hearing</a> reviewing his statements and actions throughout the pandemic, spent most of his time refusing to answer questions — even those as benign as &#8220;what color is your tie?&#8221; — and invoking his Fifth Amendment rights. But under direct questions from Senator Bernie Moreno (R-OH), Fauci took things a step further and refused to even look at the people seated behind him in the gallery.
Moreno first asked if Fauci could identify his own attorney, who had just been kicked out of the hearing for repeatedly attempting to speak when he hadn&#8217;t been called on. &#8220;Who is David Schertler?&#8221; Moreno asked, and Fauci immediately invoked the Fifth Amendment — prompting Moreno to ask what the Fifth Amendment said.
Fauci, after a brief consultation with his attorney, did not answer but again invoked his rights.
Moreno went on to explain that Schertler previously represented disgraced former Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and was known as the guy to call &#8220;when you&#8217;re in deep sh*t.&#8221; Schertler represented Menendez&#8217;s campaign and his wife in 2023, who were the subjects of a Justice Department probe at the time.
Turning back to Fauci, Moreno asked, &#8220;Do you feel like you&#8217;re in deep sh*t?&#8221;
Fauci again invoked his Fifth Amendment rights.
&#8220;Clearly what you think today is that somehow you&#8217;re above reproach. Somehow you feel like you don&#8217;t need to be treated like a normal American,&#8221; Moreno said to Fauci, and then pivoted to address the audience. &#8220;Can you do me a favor, in the audience, and stand up if during the time of the COVID pandemic, you were called a &#8216;racist&#8217; for calling the virus the &#8216;Wuhan virus&#8217; or the &#8216;China virus,&#8217; if you thought the six-foot rule was total crap, if you thought the vaccine wasn&#8217;t something that you should take, if you thought it was outrageous the way the mask policy was rolled out, if you were fired from your job for not taking that vaccine — including members of the military — if you thought closing schools was catastrophically stupid, and &#8230; saying these things made you somehow a lesser human being.&#8221;
People in the gallery began to stand up in the rows behind Fauci — just two or three at first, and then more than a dozen were standing.
&#8220;Dr. Fauci, could you just turn and look at the people behind you?&#8221; Moreno asked. Fauci ignored the request and looked straight ahead. &#8220;You&#8217;re not willing to do that? It&#8217;s not a question. It&#8217;s not a question.&#8221;
One of Fauci&#8217;s lawyers tapped him on the shoulder then, and while he did turn to speak with the attorney, he kept his head low and pointedly did not look at the people standing behind him.
&#8220;To your lawyers, it&#8217;s not a question, it&#8217;s a request,&#8221; Moreno added. &#8220;All you have to do is look up from your lawyers and look at the people who were absolutely shamed for saying what we now know to be the truth. You can&#8217;t even look at them? That&#8217;s a question. Are you able to look at them?&#8221;
When Fauci still said nothing, Moreno told the audience members that they could sit. Fauci&#8217;s mic was off, but he could barely be heard repeating his invocation of the Fifth Amendment like a mantra as they sat.

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Dr. Anthony Fauci is set to testify Wednesday morning before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), who heads the committee, subpoenaed the former White House medical adviser after Fauci first agreed to appear and then refused to testify.
The hearing is expected to focus on the origins of COVID-19, federal funding for gain-of-function research, Fauci&#8217;s past statements to Congress, his preemptive presidential pardon from then-President Joe Biden, and his handling of the federal government&#8217;s response to the pandemic.
It&#8217;s expected that many of the questions asked during the hearing will be colored by Fauci&#8217;s explosive diary entries, which were maintained on government servers and recently released by Sen. Paul. The entries detail Fauci&#8217;s private thoughts and knowledge — often in sharp contrast to his public messaging — including the origins of the virus, his feelings about different political figures, such as President Donald Trump, and his fierce obsession with media attention, celebrities, and fame.
Read the full diary, below:
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For example, in January 2020 Fauci wrote that &#8220;we know the market was not the source&#8221; of the outbreak, privately indicating that he believed the Wuhan wet market was not where the outbreak started. Yet publicly, Fauci repeatedly suggested the wet-market theory was accurate.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/watch-live-fauci-faces-congress-as-explosive-diari">WATCH: Fauci Faces Congress As Explosive Diaries Take Center</a>
Numerous entries also detail how much positive press Fauci was receiving from the media and celebrities. “Press still hot and heavy about me,” Fauci wrote in April 2020. “Multiple stories per day directly or indirectly involving me.” Weeks later, he celebrated a &#8220;very flattering&#8221; front-page article about himself in The Washington Post, adding, &#8220;The situation with my national and international fame is explosive and really unimaginable. It is not hyoperbole [sic] to say that today I am the most famous and talked about person in the country and one of the most recognizable [person] in the world.&#8221;
In his diaries, Fauci also wrote negatively of President Trump and Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, the first governor in the nation to buck Fauci&#8217;s advice about shutting down daily life to &#8220;stop the spread.&#8221; On Trump, Fauci penned that the president was &#8220;truly an obnoxious adolescent.&#8221; Another entry read, &#8220;He is embarrassing the USA. However, 72,000,000 voted for him. Difficult to understand. Craziness has overtaken part of our country.&#8221;
Fauci called DeSantis &#8220;a complete disgrace,&#8221; adding, &#8220;He is blocking the local authorities from mandating masks in various locations including schools. He is doing this while at the same time Florida is virtually on fire with surging cases.&#8221;
Additionally, the health advisor appeared to take credit for influencing school closures. In one March 2020 entry, Fauci wrote that he had &#8220;convinced&#8221; then-New York City Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio to close the city&#8217;s schools and that California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom also decided to close schools based on what Fauci was saying publicly. Those entries stand in contrast to Fauci&#8217;s later public statements that he did not close schools or advocate for lockdowns.
The diary entries also seem to highlight Fauci&#8217;s unwillingness to be transparent and honest with the American people when it comes to the effectiveness and risks of the COVID vaccines. Fauci said in the diary that he experienced a pulmonary infection and contracted COVID on multiple occasions despite his very public show of being vaccinated and receiving multiple booster shots. Those health episodes were not publicly disclosed at the time.

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On June 2, 2020, I spent my 18th birthday entirely alone. For much of the day, I sat on my front porch, answering text messages from friends, but mostly I allowed time to pass in a crawl, the way it did for much of the COVID-19 lockdown. In the evening, I went inside and turned on the nightly news out of habit. It had become addicting watching the number of COVID cases rise and hearing concerned news anchors pour over virality data and quarantine horror stories. I spent my 18th birthday alone, shut away from my friends and family, watching people post black squares on their Instagram accounts in solidarity with George Floyd. 
That same day, Dr. Anthony Fauci met with President Donald Trump, during which time Trump <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/07/27/faucis-diary-released-revealing-his-thoughts-fame-rambling-trump/">allegedly stated</a>, “I love you, Tony. I feel like giving you a big hug.” After meeting for awhile to discuss vaccines, Trump called Fauci “close” to his desk and complimented him by saying, “You are looking real good.” According to Fauci’s diary, upon leaving the White House, he bumped into a friend and bragged about his performances on recent media hits. He then excitedly anticipated his plans for a morning breakfast meeting with Michael Caputo, the former assistant secretary for Health and Human Services. The previous day, June 1, Fauci bragged in his diary about getting to do a Zoom graduation ceremony for the Regis High School’s senior class. By his own judgement, they “loved it.”
While hundreds of thousands of children and young adults were blocked from having actual graduation ceremonies, or meeting with family members, or having morning breakfasts with their friends, Fauci was living a normal life. After he spent months scaring Americans and convincing local and state governments that they had to shutter their doors, he was parading around D.C., doing media hits and making notes about which celebrities offered him public praise. 
For members of Gen Z, the pandemic was the first major cultural event they experienced. Many were too young to remember 9/11 or the 2008 financial crisis. While some of my friends vaguely remember a few things about the Obama presidency or Trump’s first term, very few of them were mature enough to be politically engaged. The pandemic stripped away their ignorance, forcing them to deal with the tyrannical political inclinations of Fauci, state governments, and liberal elites. 
At the time, very few young people saw any upside to the COVID pandemic. It led to 46% of Gen Z reporting new mental health issues, 65% <a href="https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/stress/2021/one-year-pandemic-stress-youth">reporting</a> feeling &#8220;very lonely,&#8221; and spikes in dangerous social trends such as <a href="https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Trans-Pop-Update-Jun-2022.pdf">transgenderism</a>. Some students never got to say goodbye to their friends before leaving for college or, upon arrival, weren’t allowed to leave their dorm rooms without a mask. Numerous colleges required students to be vaccinated if they wanted to attend classes in person, while other universities and high schools simply told people to take virtual classes without any end in sight. Many of my teenage friends suddenly found themselves smoking weed every night to pass the time, or turning to dangerous illicit drugs just to “feel something.” With bars closed and parties cancelled, many of my former classmates started drinking alone in their rooms. Meanwhile, out-of-touch celebrities posted cringey videos of themselves singing “Imagine” and hiding in their Beverly Hills mansions. 
For some Zoomers, the reaction to COVID was despair. But for many others, the reaction was defiance. After months of lockdowns and mask mandates, young people realized that their likelihood of getting sick was very slim and that quarantining barely mitigated the spread. As “two weeks to slow the spread” spiraled into endless months of forced isolation, many people realized the government was being weaponized against them. Just a few of my peers&#8217; stories back this up. 
Alex, who is now 26, dropped out of Northwestern just a few months into his freshman year after realizing the school’s online classes didn’t match its pricey tuition fees. In his free time, he taught himself computer programming. After landing a job at a well-known bank, he came to the conclusion that college was a scam, COVID was a scam, and that the only people who hadn’t lied to him were conservatives.
Jake, 27, had recently graduated from high school and got into the trades during the start of the pandemic. After going into several people’s houses per day, he realized the quarantines had had very little effect on people’s safety and Fauci’s HHS had been spreading lies.
Eric, 24, was forced to spend all of his time alone in his dorm room as a college student. He began listening to podcasts, starting with Jordan Peterson, and eventually wound up listening to Michael Knowles and Charlie Kirk every day. Within the course of less than a year, he went from being apolitical to volunteering for Turning Point USA. 
COVID taught young Americans that they couldn’t trust the government to make decisions for them. In the past few years, a majority of my peers have admitted a similar experience: that COVID caused them to see the tyrannical abuse of power inflicted by left-wing governments. It’s no surprise that Trump won the popular vote for Gen Z men in 2024; he represented freedom from radical leftism. I was not the only Gen Z kid who spent her birthday, or graduation, or weekends alone. I was one of many young people who realized that Fauci’s shutdowns and power grabs were nothing but narcissism. Gen Z will never forgive Fauci for lying to them, but they can be grateful that he showed them how dictatorial politicians can be.
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Brooke Brandtjen is a writer and journalist from Wisconsin who focuses primarily on culture, politics, and religion. She is a senior contributor at New Guard Press, a publication she joined while attending Hillsdale College.
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Former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary says the newly released diaries of Dr. Anthony Fauci echo doubts he formed about Fauci&#8217;s motives years before the COVID-19 pandemic.
Makary said in a resurfaced 2024 interview he &#8220;first became suspicious of Dr. Fauci and his motives&#8221; during the 2014 Ebola outbreak, when Fauci insisted on transferring a recovering nurse from Dallas to the National Institutes of Health, arguing the move was motivated by publicity rather than medical necessity. Makary said the transfer needlessly exposed others.
According to Makary, the patient was already receiving appropriate care under standard respiratory precautions, leaving no medical reason for the transfer, which he attributed to a publicity opportunity.
&#8220;There&#8217;s a room for respiratory precautions at every major medical center,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;It&#8217;s not like the respiratory precaution room at the NIH hospital is better than the respiratory precautions room at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.&#8221;
&#8220;And there&#8217;s nothing really to do, just supportive care,&#8221; Makary said. &#8220;They&#8217;re just watching her, so they&#8217;re doing basically nothing. They&#8217;re just letting her recover. And Fauci insists that they fly her up to the Clinical Center in Washington, D.C., from Dallas.&#8221;
As seen in the resurfaced clip from 2014, Fauci proudly announced the move of the Ebola patient during a congressional hearing in Washington, D.C., adding, &#8220;I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll hear about it soon in the press.&#8221;
&#8220;She will be coming to the National Institutes of Health, where we&#8217;ll be supplying her with state-of-the-art care in our high-level containment facilities, exposing countless people in the transport to Ebola,&#8221; Makary said, mocking Fauci&#8217;s actions. &#8220;Then Fauci puts on an astronaut suit along with a photographer and goes into this room where she&#8217;s recovering and they get a photo-op.&#8221;
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Makary said that one of the photos went viral and the NIH subsequently held a press conference with Dr. Fauci. Makary said Fauci boasted about how all this care would be totally free of charge and that they never bill patients. Makary said one reporter memorably noted that the NIH is funded by taxpayers.
&#8220;One person, a reporter in the audience, astutely says, &#8216;Wait a minute, when you say it&#8217;s free, isn&#8217;t it funded by billions of taxpayer dollars?'&#8221; Makary recalled. &#8220;And you know, that kind of threw a monkey wrench into their argument.&#8221;
&#8220;All I can say is there is no clinical indication, there is no medical justification for transport here,&#8221; Makary added.
WATCH:
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Really fascinating commentary on Anthony Fauci here from former FDA head Marty Makary. Well worth watching in light of today’s revelations. 
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— Megan Basham (@megbasham) <a href="https://x.com/megbasham/status/2081863831223955645?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 27, 2026</a></blockquote>
As highlighted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-fauci-diaries-reveal-celebrity-obsession-at-height-of-covid-crisis?utm_content=email_blast_creative00278_na&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=newsletter&amp;utm_source=iterable">The Daily Wire</a>, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Rand Paul (R-KY) released a trove of previously private Fauci diaries this week ahead of Fauci’s expected testimony this Wednesday. The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/faucis-personal-diary-highlights-shocking-contradiction-on-covid-fatality-rate">diaries</a> appear to show that Fauci privately discussed COVID-19 fatality estimates that differed from his public statements to Congress, while also documenting what critics have described as a man obsessed with media attention and his growing celebrity.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-fauci-diaries-reveal-celebrity-obsession-at-height-of-covid-crisis">New Fauci Diaries Reveal Celebrity Obsession At Height Of COVID Crisis</a>

House Hearing On Oversight Of Trump Administration’s Response To Covid-19 Pandemic

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Anthony Fauci’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/faucis-personal-diary-highlights-shocking-contradiction-on-covid-fatality-rate">diary entries</a> reveal that he worked with Left-leaning officials to push for a delay of the COVID vaccine rollout and stymie President Donald Trump’s re-election bid.
In May 2020, Fauci expressed disapproval of Trump’s focus on the 2020 election, and <a href="https://www.paul.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/2026.07.24_Tonys-Diary-Package.pdf#&amp;_intcmp=fnc_politics_article_main-content_article-body_6_1">wrote</a>, “Trump getting out of control in pushing to open up the country and get the economy back before election day. He is desparate [sic]. This is all about re-election.”
In his June 20 entry, less than five months before the election, Fauci claimed that Trump’s plan of rolling out a vaccine quickly was rooted in his desire for re-election and he considered blowing &#8220;the whistle&#8221; on White House Coronavirus Task Force Deb Birx, who was also focused on a quick rollout.
“I am getting progressively disillusioned with [coordinator of the White House Coronavirus Task Force] Deb Birx,” Fauci wrote. “Deb has ststed [sic] that we should noit [sic] do clinical trials since ‘I want to see every infected person in a nursing home get plasma early on and steroids later. Forget the trial, we need to do this on EUAs [Emergency Use Authorizations].’ She says the same thing about vaccine trials. Clearly, she is trying to provide Trump with his October surprise. I may need to blow the whistle on her.”
In July, Fauci disdainfully wrote about former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows after Meadows publicly announced that vaccines would soon be rolled out, adding that Fauci’s lockdown protocols were not working.
“Mark Meadows on This Week with George Stephanopoulos saying [sic] that public health measures are not working and we will have to rely on interventions such as vaccines and therapeutics,” Fauci wrote. “This is his way of backing out of a failure and trying to get an &#8216;October Surprise.&#8217; Heads up for him trying to push an early approval of vaccine or even influencing the decision about convalescent sera, which actually do not look too good right now.”
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-fauci-diaries-reveal-celebrity-obsession-at-height-of-covid-crisis">diary</a> revelations come thanks to Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Rand Paul&#8217;s (R-KY) release of a trove of Fauci&#8217;s previously private writings ahead of Fauci’s expected testimony this Wednesday. The diaries appear to show that Fauci, the former top COVID adviser for President Trump and former President Joe Biden, misled Congress about the coronavirus fatality rate in the early days of the pandemic for both scientific and political reasons.
On July 27, 2020, the day that the Phase 3 trial of the Moderna mRNA-1273 vaccine was launched, Fauci met with the president and told him that the vaccine rollout would not take place until after the election. 
“It is clear he [Trump] wants therapeutics quickly,” Fauci wrote. “He accepted that the vaccine might not be ready before the election, but he was not happy about it. He kept pushing about when therapy would be ready.”
Fauci added that he was surprised that White House staff announced that convalescent plasma data was positive and could help bring about an early vaccine. 
“[I] Had no idea what they were talking about since we know that the plasma data are a mess and we are bringing in statisticians (independent) to look at the data,” Fauci wrote.
On July 31, Fauci recorded getting a call from Dr. Larry Horowitz, a Democratic health policy advisor who worked with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).
“Apparently, There was a meeting in the WH with Steve Mnuchin, Mark Meadows, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schummer [sic],” Fauci wrote. “Steve and Mark told Nancy and Chuck that AstraZeneca will have [a] vaccine in September and that it will be given an EUA. Theyare [sic] talking about the ChADOX vaccine that Adrian Hill is testing in Brazil and South Africa, It is a 10,000 person trial.”
“Apparently, Peter Marks does not know anything about this and Larry just informed him,” Fauci continued. “Bottom line is that they are going to pressure Steve Han [sic] (who likely will cave in in the idea of an EUA) to issue one even though Peter has serius [sic] issues with this. An EUA will likely get in the way of completing the RCTs that are going on. Clearly. This is politically driven and will be a ploy for Trump to get reelected.”
On August 7, 2020, Fauci recorded another meeting with Horowitz, stating that he, along with other prominent scientists Dr. Francis Collins and Dr. Clifford Lane, would support Stephen Hahn, the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, if Hahn blocked FDA approval of a vaccine. 
“He [Horowitz] had warned me a few days ago about Meadows trying to pressure Hahn and Marks to grant UA (or even BLA) prematurely to vaccines (likely AZ) in time for the election,&#8221; Fauci wrote. “I called Peter Marks a couple of days ago (together with Collins and Lane) and explained that we would back him if he holds the line. He called the AZ package &#8216;a hot mess’ and definitely not in shape for an EUA drive on Times Square.”
In an October 29, 2020, entry, Fauci continued to pressure regulators to take more time to approve a vaccine as the election neared.
&#8220;The FDA career scientists are hesitant to grant EUAs to Lilly’s and Regeneron’s mAb based on the current data. Alex Azar is really pushing them and furious because he thinks FDA is &#8216;slowwalking&#8217; the process so as not to have it out before the election in 5 days,&#8221; Fauci wrote. &#8220;Clearly, Alex wants to please the POTUS so that they can say that they have a breakthrough (similar to Convalescent plasma nonsense) right before the election. Azar then asked NIH (Collins), CDC (Redfield) and ASPR (Kadlec) to weigh in since the legislation that established the EUA process (dating back to the Anthrax situation in 2001) requires the CDC, NIH, and ASPR Directors to weigh in on EUA decisions (even though they have not done so in the past). Cliff and I had long conversation with Francis on his way down to HHS to discuss with Azar. We encouraged Francis to support the career scientists at FDA since they do not want to rush this through. They need more time to gather important information since what they have now is rather weak.&#8221;
Six days after Trump lost the 2020 election to Biden, Pfizer announced its 95% vaccine efficacy result. Horowitz then told Fauci that Trump “called up Steve Hahn today and told him that Alex Azar said that Steve lost the POTUS the election by holding up the news about the Pfizer vaccine.&#8221;
Justin Hart, author of &#8220;Gone Viral: How Covid Drove the World Insane,&#8221; <a href="https://www.rationalground.com/p/new-fauci-revelation-he-slow-rolled">wrote</a> that the diaries show &#8220;Fauci personally intervened with the FDA’s top vaccine regulator to encourage him to resist a pre-election authorization, and his intelligence on White House vaccine plans ran repeatedly through the office of the Speaker of the House — on July 31, August 7, August 8, and again in November.&#8221;

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Diary Reveals Fauci Slow-Played Vaccine Rollout To Damage Trump

Mark Meadows

Moderna

Bad guys always think they&#8217;re the heroes.
Case in point: Anthony Fauci.
Perhaps the best predictor of monstrously egotistical behavior is if you have a giant portrait of yourself in your house. And we now know that Fauci was a fame-obsessed publicity hound who was willing to use power to subvert the truth.
That&#8217;s not speculation. That&#8217;s reality, because Anthony Fauci kept a diary — consisting of 1,100 pages — and Rand Paul just dropped all of it.
A diary is where you write what you actually think, not what you tell the cameras. And what Anthony Fauci told the country and what he wrote in private turned out to be quite different stories.
In the list of motivations for human beings, ego is at the very top of the list. Ego is one hell of a drug.
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Fauci&#8217;s personal diary contains entries running from late 2019 through Fauci&#8217;s retirement in December 2022. It has hundreds of articles about himself inserted into it; 641 entries are labeled “press” that are largely about himself.
As Tom Elliott <a href="https://tomselliott.substack.com/p/fauci-files-a-megalomaniacal-egomaniac">noted</a>:
<blockquote>The tone of what he preserved is worth registering. He kept the Washington Post column comparing a Rand Paul cross-examination of him to “watching Albert Einstein being disputed by his dry cleaner.” He kept the Joan Baez portrait and her calling him an American hero (p. 292). He kept the cookies from Joe and Jill Biden with the note “You are our hero” (p. 175), and Julia Roberts gasping on an Instagram livestream that he was her personal hero, and Marian Wright Edelman calling him “a true national treasure” (p. 1113), and Beth Cameron of the NSC texting that he was her hero for what he did with Rand Paul (p. 815).</blockquote>
That&#8217;s the kind of person that Anthony Fauci is and was.
A lot of the public indicators were there. In 2021, Fauci suggested that attacks on him were identical to attacks on science, saying on MSNBC, “A lot of what you&#8217;re seeing as attacks on me, quite frankly, are attacks on science, because all of the things that I have spoken about consistently from the very beginning have been fundamentally based on science. Sometimes those things were inconvenient truths for people, and there was pushback against me.”
Fauci used every opportunity to get in front of a camera. He had red-light syndrome like no one&#8217;s business. Do you remember that you couldn&#8217;t go to the ballpark during the pandemic, and there was no reason for that,  because it turns out that COVID did not travel in the open air. COVID was not being driven by outdoor exposure.
It didn&#8217;t matter. An entire baseball season was played without human beings in the stands, except for Anthony Fauci, who personally went to a Washington Nationals game where they piped in fake applause. He showed up wearing a mask, which he then took off during the game to talk to his friends in the stands.
He had the entire place to himself, but he threw out the first pitch. It was one of the worst first pitches in baseball history.
In his diary it is all ego, all the time.
Fauci, May 2020: 
<blockquote>Big front page article about me appeared in the Washington Post. Very flattering. The situation with my national and international fame is explosive and really unimaginable. It is not hyperbole to say that today I&#8217;m the most famous and talked about person in the country, and one of the most recognizable persons in the world. Countless profiles on me in multiple media. I cannot even read all the things that are written about me since I&#8217;m so busy &#8230; seriously. POTUS seems to be enamored of me, even though I am taking the spotlight away from him. We&#8217;re developing a very unique and interesting relationship. The entire Secret Service Corps is coming over to me and chatting. They let me into the first gate without even checking ID. Everyone is worried about my health and welfare, probably because it is all over the place that I am almost 80 years old.</blockquote>
It must be great to be Anthony Fauci.
If you sit there reading your press clippings all day, you&#8217;re doing your life wrong.
It turns out that Fauci knew pretty much all along that the origins of COVID were not related to a wet market; they were almost certainly a leak from the Wuhan laboratory. That was speculated early on by Tom Cotton of Arkansas, whereupon everyone on the Left, including the legacy media, jumped all over Cotton and suggested that it was a conspiracy theory to speculate as to whether the virus had come not from some weird guy eating a bat, but actually had come from the lab that did infectious disease studies on coronaviruses.
But as early as January 26, 2020 — before anyone even knew this was going to turn into a global pandemic — Anthony Fauci was writing in his diary that it almost certainly did not come from the wet market.
In March 2020, he bragged that he convinced everyone to shut down the country. He wrote, “When I left the White House and crossed Pennsylvania and 17th Street, several cars honked their horns and shouted &#8216;thank you&#8217; out the window.”
What a hero.
He then went out publicly and lied in July 2022, saying that he did not recommend locking anything down.
His diary explicitly says he did recommend locking things down.
Fauci was the bad guy. Not because bad guys know they&#8217;re being bad, but because they think they&#8217;re lying for a higher purpose. Fauci was lying because he thought that he was “doing the right thing” — that just happened to align with his personal interests, such as being on the cover of InStyle magazine, which actually happened; an 80-year-old doctor featured on the cover of InStyle magazine.
That&#8217;s who Anthony Fauci was.
It just goes to show you the foibles of human nature. I&#8217;ve said a thousand times, you try to attribute things to stupidity rather than malice, but it turns out that those two things can cross streams, &#8220;Ghostbusters&#8221;-style, and you end up with Anthony Fauci with outsized influence over policy.
This is one of the reasons our founders were big fans of federalism and checks and balances in the federal government.
Whenever anyone tells you what we actually need is a government that moves faster and hits harder and does things more quickly, I remind you, the government is staffed by lots and lots of people just like Anthony Fauci, because it turns out in life there are lots and lots of people like Anthony Fauci.
And that’s not good.

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The Hero Complex That Held America Hostage

Ben Shapiro

Opinion

Tom Cotton

Wuhan

Dr. Anthony Fauci recommended White House adviser Stephen Miller move into a hotel for two weeks after his wife, Katie Miller, tested positive for COVID-19 while 10 weeks pregnant, according to newly released diary entries.
The entries were released Saturday by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), who <a href="https://www.paul.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/2026.07.24_Tonys-Diary-Package.pdf">obtained</a> them during his investigation into the origins of COVID-19 and gain-of-function research ahead of Fauci&#8217;s planned testimony on Capitol Hill in the coming week.
&#8220;COVID-19 hits the White House!!&#8221; Fauci wrote on May 8, 2020. &#8220;Yesterday, it was revealed that the personal valet of the POTUS tested positive for Sars-CoV-2. However, today it was noted that Katie Miller tested positive. She was negative yesterday and positive X2 today!!!&#8221;
&#8220;She had sxs (sic) in the Sit room yesterday and sat next to Steve Hahn and behind Azar,&#8221; Fauci continued, listing a number of officials who had all attended the same briefing. &#8220;I was on the other side of the room from her, but she was coughing in the room. She sat next to Olivia Troye when she was coughing and, in the afternoon, yesterday, Olivia sat right next to me in the Ward Room of the West Wing for 45 minutes. In the room were Deb Birx, Steve Hahn, Bob Redfield, Tyler Ann, Seema Verma.&#8221;
Fauci went on to note that White House adviser Stephen Miller had tested negative even after his wife had tested positive — a relief for the White House chief medical adviser because he&#8217;d spent some time in close proximity to Miller.
&#8220;I spent much time on phone this evening advising Katie and Steve Miller as to what they should do,&#8221; Fauci continued. &#8220;She is 10 weeks pregnant. I advised that Steve must move out of the house into a hotel; he still has to self-isolate for 14 days. If he stays in the house, whether or not he gets infected, he still must self-isolate for 14 days after Katies (sic) tests negative. His clock will start after he separates from Katie and so he should start the clock now.&#8221;
Fauci explained that because he was a &#8220;low risk exposure,&#8221; he self-imposed a &#8220;modified quarantine&#8221; in which he would &#8220;get tested every day, would wear a mask ontinually (sic), and would spend most of my time either alone in my home office or alone in my NIH office and would go to White House or Congress with precautions of universal mask wearing and phycial (sic) distancing.&#8221;
He also noted that he was monitoring Katie Miller via phone, noting that she&#8217;d been very anxious about her health and that of her unborn child.
&#8220;She is very anxious about getting very ill since she is 10 weeks pregnant. Tonight she had an anxiety reaction. I calmed her over the phone. Her pulse Ox is fine and she is afebrile,&#8221; he wrote.
His other main concern was the fact that some of those who&#8217;d been seated close to Katie were not doing enough to mitigate the potential spread of the virus.
&#8220;Marc Short and others close to Katie really should do some sort of quarantine (even if modified), but they are not even wearing masks. Not a good metric,&#8221; he complained.

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Fauci Advised Stephen Miller To Leave His Pregnant Wife Alone With COVID, Get A Hotel

Alex Azar

Dr. Deborah Birx

Health

Media

Robert Redfield

White House

While publicly urging Americans to avoid family gatherings and maintain &#8220;social distance,&#8221; Dr. Anthony Fauci was also busy behind the scenes cultivating a chummy friendship with CNN anchor Jake Tapper.
Fauci&#8217;s meetings and family dinners with the longtime CNN personality were revealed in a series of <a href="https://www.paul.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/2026.07.24_Tonys-Diary-Package.pdf">diary entries</a> made public on Saturday by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), who uncovered them during his lengthy and thorough investigation into Fauci and the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The former White House chief medical adviser thoroughly documented his actions throughout the pandemic — with a heavy focus on his own media appearances and coverage, particularly when it was overly flattering — and referenced an interview with Tapper that took place on April 12, 2020. During that interview, Fauci conceded that Tapper had asked tough — but reasonable — questions, and then had called him directly afterward to make sure that the interview had not caused him &#8220;any problems.&#8221;
&#8220;Potential big problem (we shall see). NY Times reporting on an answer to a question that I gave on CNN yesterday (see above). Jake Tapper asked me if we had closed down earlier, whould (sic) that have saved lives. I said it is complicated; he persisted and I said obviously, if you close earlier there would have been lives saved, but the decision was complicated,&#8221; Fauci wrote. &#8220;I could have answered the question better and with more clarity, but the Times is now saying that I was implying that the POTUS was to blame for additional deaths according to me. The far right is tweeting to fire me. The POTUS even re-tweeted the tweet that said to fire me. We shall see how the day goes &#8230;&#8221;
Fauci said that he later met with President Donald Trump, who said that he did not have an issue and business continued as usual.
Of the press briefing that followed, he said, &#8220;I went out and explained that I was being hoest (sic) in my answer to Jake, but that I was not implying that anyone was responsible for more deaths &#8230; Phone call with Jake Tapper. Jake wanted to make sure the interview did not cause me any problems.&#8221;
Later that month, Tapper spoke with Fauci about an interview he&#8217;d done with Coronavirus coordinator Deborah Birx. Of that exchange, Fauci wrote, &#8220;I was not on Sunday shows. Deb was on CNN with Jake Tapper and did not answer the question of whether it was a mistake for the POTUS to talk about injecting or swallowing bleach. Jake wrote me a text afterwards and said: “Birx has lost her way I fear. She has chosen to focus on defending the president and attacking the press. Odd.&#8221;
On May 4, 2020, Fauci referenced a CNN interview in which Tapper had been hard on the Trump administration&#8217;s &#8220;inadequate&#8221; response to the pandemic — but had spared him the ire reserved for the president: &#8220;Jake Tapper did a segment last night on the inadequate response of the Trump administration to the pandemic. I came out relatively well.&#8221;
Later that month, when Katie Miller, a spokesperson for Vice President Mike Pence, tested positive, and Fauci was directly exposed to SARS-CoV-2, he got a call from Tapper making sure that he was all right.
&#8220;Jake Tapper called me and asked whether I was going inot (sic) quarantine. I explained to Jake that I would do a “modified quarantine” since I was a low risk exposure to Kstie (sic). Thid merans (sic) that I will get tested every day, would wear a mask ontinually (sic), and would spend most of my time either alone in my home office or alone in my NIH office and would go to White House or Congress with precautions of universal mask wearing and phycial (sic) distancing. I tested negative yesterday and will get tested every day for 14 days and then 1 time per week,&#8221; he wrote, adding in a subsequent entry that Marc Short was not taking enough precautions.
&#8220;Marc Short (whom I resally (sic) like) practically sits on Katie’s lap and he is vey (sic) close to the VP. Yet he is not even wearing a mask. He actually should be self-quarantining. He was at a much greater risk than I.&#8221;
On July 1, Fauci mentioned a dinner with Tapper and his wife: &#8220;Had dinner over Jake Tapper and Jen Tapper’s home in DC. Terrific couple. Friendship building.&#8221;
By late July, Fauci was feeding questions to Tapper ahead of interviews with other officials: &#8220;Brett Giroir on Tapper (State of the Union) talking bullsh*t about testing with Jake pressing him. I gave Jake some questions to ask him.&#8221;
And Tapper was calling Fauci to complain about President Trump: &#8220;Jake Tapper woke me up at 11:23 AM (I went to bed early) furius (sic) at POTUS for tweeting about the fact that Jake severly (sic) questioned Brett Giroir on SOTU CNN show today. Jake was really pissed at the craziness of it all.&#8221;
In later entries — into the fall of 2020, as Americans were preparing to host holiday dinners via Zoom — Fauci mentioned another dinner at the Tapper home: &#8220;Had dinner at my home with Jake and Jennifer Tapper. Relaxed, good time. Jake clearly believes that Trump is totally nuts.&#8221;
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Tapper texts Fauci to attack Laura Ingraham and defend the integrity of Dartmouth <a href="https://t.co/pLW5c1zuja">pic.twitter.com/pLW5c1zuja</a>
— Emily Jashinsky (@emilyjashinsky) <a href="https://x.com/emilyjashinsky/status/2081488487337906438?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 26, 2026</a></blockquote>
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In a later exchange, after Fauci appeared on Fox News with host Laura Ingraham, Tapper texted to mock Ingraham, saying it was a shock that she&#8217;d graduated from Dartmouth.

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